Animoog improvements wish list

We love Animoog so much that we desire to make it even better! Don’t hesitate to contribute your thoughts and ideas in the comments below, we’ll update this page accordingly. This page was last update for Animoog version 2.2.3.

Sequencer

Animoog already supports midi output and input, but the problem rather lies in the absence, as far as I’m aware, of iOS apps that fully support Animoog’s expressive capabilities — especially polypressure

Currently, we can record the tracks in Animoog, but that gets recorded in audio format — we lose the capability to modify tracks at the note level

We need to be able to record and easily modify, in an easy to use user interface, played notes, the subtle changes to poly-pressure, x/y pad changes and ideally anything players usually modify while playing Animoog

Once we’ll have this, I foresee an explosion of Animoog-made professional music

Saving session state

There’s currently no way to save our Animoog session’s state

It would be seriously useful to be able to save session states, which would include: the selected preset, x/y pad location, keys and scale settings, and essentially any other settings your can set via Animoog’s interface

Presets and tracks transfer and sync

Getting data in and out Animoog could be much easier and straightforward, especially for (A) 4-track projects, and (B) user-saved presets and timbres

For tracks, we can use ‘AudioCopy’ to move to Garageband and then export away, or use Audiobus to record inside yet another app. For copying presets out, we currently have to rely on iFunBox, iTools and similar software (solutions that don’t currently support iOS 8.3+ for anything else than presets, such as timbres and recorded tracks). In both cases, it requires third-party software and lots of manipulations

What about a simple ‘Send by email’ feature for tracks? That would be a great start

Tracks and user-saved presets could also be synced in and out via iCloud Drive (part of iOS 8+), DropBox or a similar file syncing services, that would really be immensely useful

Moog could be rightfully worried that paid-for presets and timbres could be copied amongst users if they become easy to share. I suggest the following solution; let Animoog users share the presets they modified and their own timbres that they are proud of, let them build a sense of community around sharing user-modified presets and new timbres, but in order to avoid the piracy of presets sold as in-app purchases, make it a requirement that in order to use a preset coming from another user, someone has to have bought, if applicable, the original expansion pack on which the shared preset is based on. Technically, Animoog simply needs to validate that the preset the user is loading is based on a preset that the user already has rights to, if not, let the user know that it needs to buy the original preset in order to use the modified preset

Tracks could be directly pushed to SoundCloud or similar track sharing websites, but this is however of lower priority in my opinion

Preset navigation and organization

An improved user interface for preset navigation, selection and customization would be welcomed

A simple search-by-name capability would also certainly help

There’s way too many expansion packs that have their presets ending up in the ‘root’ folder, where it’s a mess

Allow user-set color coding of presets

According to this forum post, user-naming of presets is missing for Animoog on iPhone

In-app interactive help and tutorials

Animoog is a fairly complex app when it comes to modifying sounds

An in-app help could overlay descriptions of the various controls on the different screens

Currently, the in-app Manual looks like a pdf that is in no way integrated with the app itself

An even more sophisticated help could invite the user to interactively play with the various controls while providing descriptions of what is happening to the produced sounds

To push the idea further, there could even be in-app tutorials to learn playing and recording Animoog

Other ideas and wishes

Two rows of Keyboard input: yes, that would impact the current layout of the app and reduce the size of the x/y pad, but the option of adding a row of keyboard keys would significantly increase expressiveness capabilities

Awesomeness is in the details. In the 4-tracks screen, when we set the cursor to follow the song, the cursor remains at the the extreme-right of the screen, which doesn’t allow us to see what’s coming, only what has played. What about moving the follow-on cursor in the middle of the track instead? That would be a small but useful improvement

Allow using the iPad’s accelerometer sensor as a ‘control’ in the ENV/MOD tab, thus enabling vibratos and pitch bending by shaking and turning the orientation of your iPad

MIDI improvements: (a) allowing one MIDI CC to be assigned to more than one parameter (thanks Mark), (b) making polypressure a selectable MIDI control when assigning CC from within Animoog, (c) allow a new ‘pan’ control to be MIDI assignable

Timbres improvements: (a) allow storing user-created timbres in sub-folders (thanks Marc), (b)provide an on and off toggle, detuning and pitch change capabilities for individual timbres, (c) a way to display the waveforms of timbres (thanks Tonis for b & c)

Sound modulation improvements: (a) reverb and chorus controls for main output could be provided, (b) more modulation routings and LFOs such as having 3 LFOs with the same with modulations and envelopes (thanks Tonis for a & b)

Actually, with two rows of keyboard inputs, playing two different Animoog presets on the same screen becomes possible. When Animoog was launched, iPads and iPhones were far from delivering as much performance as today (over 5x increase between the iPad 2 and iPad Air). Yes, such a feature would have impact of many other aspects of the app (such as midi messages, 4-tracks recording, two xy pads?, etc), but at the same time, would bring Animoog to another level of blissfulness

Would it make sense for Animoog to become a Universal app on iOS? From a user perspective, that would be welcomed since new versions and features would be in sync for all iOS devices. Only Moog know if this makes sense from a development point of view

20 thoughts on “Animoog improvements wish list”

1) Please allow one MIDI CC to be assigned to more than one parameter on Animoog. I am an EWI player. At minimum I want to assign both volume & filter Cutoff to CC2. This is not currently possible in Animoog. Animoog will be a fantastic synth for wind controller players if this can be fixed.

At the bottom of the ‘Expansion packs’ page, accessible from the ‘Database’ menu at the top of this page, I quickly explain how you can create your own folders for presets with your own personal sounds.

It does work and as far as I know, there is currently no other way to do this. Furthermore, be aware that the last few Animoog updates provided by Moog since last Summer have broke lots of user-installed timbres and presets. They’re aware of the problem, and as of version 2.2.2, updating will break user-installed presets and timbres. Moog will hopefully eventually fix this issue…

As an old time Moog modular dude, I’d love to see an iPad collection of all the modules on a single page. Let the keyboard slide in as an overlay once all modules are set. This seems so conspicuously absent on the iPad screen, and what a joy to be looking at the entire control interface all at once! Thanks – Animoog was the app that sold me on buying an iPad, theretofore the furthest thing from my mind.

I have a very simple improvement wish for our beloved genius app. I would love to have the names of the timbres that are used on a preset, written on the x-y pad. I think this simple feature could have a tremendous impact on the way the user understands how and why any specific sound is produced through paths and orbits. And learn how to pursuit his ideas in a more knowledgeable way…

Excellent idea Antonis! We should be able to toggle off/on such an overlay. I’ll add it to the next revision of this wish list. I consider this feature request goes in line with the need for an in-app tutorial. Thanks for your contribution! Cheers — Alex / Satri

I would love to see Animoog’s looper have the ability to adjust its loop. Currently, a loop can be added to, repeated, or stopped abruptly. I’d most like to see a “feedback” knob which could be rolled back to allow the loop to fade out. I’d also love to see as many additional options implemented as possible, of course (“undo”, “next loop”, “reverse” and “multiply” would be nice. ” “Half-time”, “double-time”, etc. would be great, too)…though some fade ability would definitely be most appreciated!

Add breath control on the modulation page.
Right now if I assign breath to any parameter it is a 0-127 range. There is no way to limit the range. Adding breath control on the modulation page would make it possible to control range and to modulate 4 four different destinations with different ranges. This would make it great synth for the wind controller.
Not so much the way it is now…